The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
JACK LONDONBut I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.
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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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You stand on dead men’s legs. You’ve never had any of your own. You couldn’t walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly.
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